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Who on Earth – identifies your friends from a photo or capture from the phone camera

January 22, 2012 | By Linknode

Who on Earth identifies your friends from a photo or capture from the phone camera.

Impress your friends by recreating the face-recognition scene from Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (just without the contact-lens!).

Did you ever start talking to someone and couldn’t remember their name? Help is on the way with Who on Earth.

Use your Facebook friends (once connected to Facebook) to identify individuals on pictures or from a grab from the camera preview.

Who on Earth only uses images accessible through Facebook authentication and privacy settings.

Using Who on Earth, all the faces in the picture are identified and a named match is labelled on the image – social crisis averted!

* Select Pictures to Identify

Choose pictures from your albums or camera roll (includes photos from your phone, social networking profile, Zune images etc)
Capture an image from the camera preview without saving a picture

* Face Recognition

Faces on the picture are highlighted with names
See the strength of recognition confidence
Identify multiple faces automatically

* Settings Control

Administer Facebook login (including ‘forget me’)
Conforms to authentication and privacy settings
See how many Facebook friends have public images
No personal information is saved by the app

Free trial mode is ad supported. Full application is USD $0.99 or equivalent.

Full Details and Download Here

WhoOnEarth on Windows Phone Marketplace

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Facebook birthday tile 2.0 – manual contacts support

January 7, 2012 | By socialebola

Version 2.0 of Facebook birthday tile is now available for download on the marketplace. With this version, the application has been ported to support new Mango features and add the feature users asked for in the in-app poll – non-Facebook contacts. You can now add these contacts to your app and they will appear on your tile!

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Other features

Connect to Facebook and see who is going to have a birthday right on the tile.
Post the wall of Facebook friends directly from the app.
Add contacts manually from your phone contacts.
Edit facebook contacts that are birthday-less.
Customize the tile to fit your needs
Vote for what features you want to see next in the app

Download it now .

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Fail++ Updated with Mango features – 2.0

December 8, 2011 | By socialebola

Fail++ is on its 7th release and has over 450 ratings and an average of 4.5 stars. It’s free and it’s glorious Fail++ gives access to about 10 funny picture blogs – with one added with each release (this release, the "Comixed" blog was added!). With Mango, the app is snappier, a lot of things run much faster. The design of the app also changed to work with a more tile-like experience. But the biggest change is that you can pin any of the blogs to your start screen, giving you funny pictures from each blog right on your start screen. Tapping any of these new tile images will land you directly on the blog in question.

Once you find that one really funny picture, or really offensive one, or really stupid one, you can share it with your friends through texting, email or Facebook or you can just add it to your favourites for later.

There’s also a nifty feature that allows you to vote for new features you want to see in the app in the "about" section. Right now the options are "Ad-free" version of the app, Search or Twitter support. It looks like "Search" is winning by a pretty wide margin.

Fail++ can be found in Marketplace here.

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MadPix – create funny Photo Booth pictures of your family and friends!

November 6, 2011 | By Joachim Graesser

MadPix is a camera app that makes use of the new Mango exclusive features.
You can take photos from inside the app and choose between 4 different funny effects that are previewed in real-time.
This makes the app simple to use and the resulting images look quite naturally.
To share these moments with your family and friends, there’s a built-in facebook integration.

App Description:

With MadPix you can make funny pics of your friends with your phone’s camera and save them to the phone’s gallery or upload and share them directly through Facebook. Have a look at the screenshots to see some results.
MadPix visualizes 4 different high-quality effects (stretch, sqeeze, bulge, normal) in real time while you’re taking the photo.
MadPix supports rapid fire mode, so you won’t get interrupted while trying to catch the best situation.
There is an internal photo gallery where you can browse your snapshots. From there you can quickly move them to your phone’s gallery, upload or even delete them. This helps avoid trashing your main gallery.

Free trial available, buy for 0,99€

MadPix can be found in Marketplace here.

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Official Windows Phone 7 Facebook app updated to Mango

October 31, 2011 | By Surur

primaryImage The official Windows Phone 7 Facebook app has just received one of its rare updates, this time to support Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.

The update brings the software to version 2.2 and ads the ability to pin selected elements of the app, for example the Messages inbox, to your home screen.

The app also now supports toasts and tile notifications for a wide variety of events, including friend requests, messages, being tagged and other features.

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Facebook for Windows Phone 7.5 can be found in Marketplace here.

Thanks Benjamin and Mthokozisi for the tip.

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Windows Phone 7 Facebook app finally crosses 1 million monthly active users

October 14, 2011 | By Surur

It has been a hard slog, and now, on the eve of the one year anniversary of the launch of Windows Phone 7, the Windows Phone 7 built-in Facebook app has finally crossed the 1 million active user mark.

Based on earlier estimates this translates into about 6 million Windows Phone 7 users in total, a number I am sure far below what Microsoft expected to sell over the last 12 months, but still a reasonable constituent.

By comparison the Facebook for iPhone app has around 90 million users, while the Facebook for Android app has has 67 million.

Hopefully with a new generation of devices and more committed partners in the next 12 months Windows Phone will also cross these milestones at a significantly higher pace.

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Rendezvous, the ultimate Facebook event application

October 12, 2011 | By DanielKoroush

Rendezvous is a Windows Phone 7 application that allows you to easily set up get-together with your friends. Through Facebook connect, you will be able to view upcoming events, rsvp to your invitations, see your friends’ upcoming events and most importantly create your own events quickly and invite your friends.

Creating events through Rendezvous provides a rich experience over traditional methods such as phone call or text message by allowing you to view venues nearby, group deals near you using Groupon deals and grouping your friends together.

Rendezvous is free and can be found in Marketplace here.

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Facebook Mobile updated to HTML5

October 11, 2011 | By andrewbares

Facebook just updated touch.facebook.com to support HTML 5, which works with WP7 Mango devices, Android and iOS.

The website looks a lot better than before, and now features an endless scrolling news feed, along with the ability to view private groups and more.

However, touch.facebook.com already has some issues with Windows Phone. The drop down menus for notifications, friend requests, and messages don’t display the background properly, so the text is sloppily displayed over everything else. Also, the website doesn’t work at all for my Samsung Focus, whereas it works fine on my HTC HD7!

Overall, I still recommend visiting the full Facebook website over the touch.facebook.com website, or simply using the built-in Facebook integration!

Credit: Neowin

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WP7 Facebook feed issues being caused by new Facebook privacy settings

October 4, 2011 | By Surur

We have had complains from readers that the Facebook feed in the People hub has not been working properly, missing updates from users and at other times being told they do not have permission to view pictures which they have been allowed to view on the desktop and Facebook app.

It turns out the explanation is simple, but pretty difficult to fix.

Microsoft said in this support thread:

“Facebook considers Windows Phone to be a third-party app, rather than an official Facebook app. This means Windows Phone only has access to information that is shared with apps and websites.

Each individual has control over what they share (Account > Privacy Settings > Apps and Websites: Edit your settings > Info accessible through your friends: Edit settings). If someone disables “My status updates,” their friends will be not be able to see the updates in third-party apps. They will, however, show up on the Facebook website and in official Facebook-branded apps. Turning off platform apps entirely makes the user’s whole Facebook profile disappear from Windows Phone.

This can be very annoying, but people should be able to control what they share. The ideal solution would be for Facebook to make Windows Phone an official app. Until that happens, updates from some friends may not appear in the People Hub.”

So unless Microsoft can twist Facebook’s arm or users set their privacy settings to be a lot laxer, the People hub will be limited to what it can do, and users will still need to check the official FB app.

Good thing Microsoft owns at least a bit of Facebook, isn’t it…

Via WPCentral.com

Thanks Koki for the tip.

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New version of CleverPhoto by CleverSoftware released

September 29, 2011 | By Avory

CleverPhoto 1.2.0.0 by CleverSoftware is one of the best and most powerful photo editors for Windows Phone7. It comes with more than 25 high quality adjustments and effects that can be applied many times!

CleverPhoto will gratify beginners (simple and clean interface), as well as power users (effects capable of of the highest quality touch up).

Modify the photo with easy to use operations: rotate, crop, flip, color border or grunge frame.
Make adjustments with brightness and contrast, color selection, black and white, old photo, sharpness and blur.

Enjoy a variety of filters like tilt-shift, lomography or x-ray.

All the effects are easy to use and can be applied many times on a photo of any size, selective undo option lets you remove any not desirable effect.

Create sensational photos and share them on Facebook and Flickr in few easy steps.

Features included:

Manipulations

Crop Photos
Rotate Photos
Adjust Brightness
Adjust Contrast
Flip horizontal
Flip vertical

Effects

Black and white
Sepia
Negative
Add Noise
Vintage
Color selection
Old photo
Blur
Sharpen
Emboss
Vignette
Lomography
Edge detection
Posterize
Tilt shift
X-Ray

Frames

Instant photo
Grunge

Share

Easy Facebook upload
Easy Flickr upload

Price: $1.49. Download it from Marketplace here.

Trial version lets you do everything except saving and sharing.

CleverPhoto is under constant development so stay tuned for more updates and don’t hesitate to send your comments, questions and suggestions to: support@clever-software.net
For all the up to date news like our facebook site – ww.facebook.com/clever.software.net

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Mehsplosion? Nerdsplosion!

September 20, 2011 | By Max Lieblich

Mood Projector has reached version 1.5 and is available in the Marketplace for $0.99 (with a free trial)! Mood Projector extends Rage-O-Meter to new emotions, with more coming in future updates. Mood Projector integrates with the Facebook Silverlight Mood Projector app.

Simply choose your emotion, set the level, edit the message (if desired), and then post it to Facebook, the Facebook Splosion Stream, or Twitter, or send it by email or SMS. Integrated browsers let you observe the Facebook Splosion Stream or the Twitter #splsn stream. It all lives in one convenient panorama.

Version 2.0 will feature logging and graphing. Watch your emotions evolve over time!

I am a novice developer who started at zero a little over a month ago. The wealth of available MS tools, tutorials, books, and websites have helped me learn a tremendous amount in a short time. To anyone out there who is thinking of taking the plunge, go for it! I would never have guessed a month ago that my apps would be downloaded over 1600 times by now!

Download Mood Projector from the Marketplace and start sploding today.

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Vent your rage with the Rage-O-Meter

September 3, 2011 | By Max Lieblich

Rage-O-Meter is now available in the Marketplace!

Using a technique perfected by medical residents in Philadelphia, the Rage-O-Meter lets you blow off steam quickly and efficiently. Just drag the pulsating orb of rage into position, hold down the broadcast button, and release your rage into the world.

The Rage-O-Meter is integrated with Twitter and Facebook to help disperse your rage quickly over a large network. The Rage-O-Meter goes to 11.

The Rage-O-Meter is free and available from the Marketplace here.

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New Windows Phone 7 Logo now also spreading to Facebook comments

August 17, 2011 | By Surur

Just a little tidbit, but it is of note that Microsoft is readying for the roll-out of Mango by spreading the new square orange logo ever wider, this time to your Facebook comments if you comment using the built-in Facebook integration.

The new square logo was first spotted at a Mango event all the way in May but was only officially confirmed by Microsoft Japan on the 1st August 2011. It is part of the increasingly pervasive Metro styling which eschews gradients and curves for a more “Authentically Digital” look.

Thanks Loopyeyes and Dan for the tip.

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